I personally think names should be pronounced as intended by their owner.
Otherwise all the Sheniquas, Tajs and the various iterations of Tahnees, Caitlyn's and karlies are buggered
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I personally think names should be pronounced as intended by their owner.
Otherwise all the Sheniquas, Tajs and the various iterations of Tahnees, Caitlyn's and karlies are buggered
You are right GIGS. I concede the point. The Sheniqua's, Taj's, Tahnee's and Karlie's of this world have suffered enough already.
Those are just the tip of the iceberg compared to some of the names I have come across.
especially when you were in Derby,James!
They deserve our compassion and understanding. It's a small price to pay for withholding our respect
Well lets call it low level cultural intolerance then..
You have to ask you selves who and why all these name were anglicised in the first place..
And sure, why not make the effort to call the Sun Wolfs by their Japanese name? By being too worried about what the 77% think of you, you're missing out on all the fun of learning about other languages and cultures. That's like not wearing a bike helmet because you're worried someone will point and laugh. Peeps need to be bigger than that I think..
So I went off and checked..
サンウルブズ (SAN'URUBUZU)
sounds super cool..
If their name is in katakana, it's from the English. So Sunwolves.
Ironic really. Isn't you calling my opinion intolerant intolerant in itself? And I don't much care what other people think about me and what I say. That is not it at all.
I am curious to know why you think names like Paris, Mexico or Barcelona were anglicised. My best guess is that we say things how we see them, and from the printing press until the television, written language became the dominant form of global communication. That influence has endured into television media. I like that we all have different ways of saying and doing things. It makes us unique.
Los Gauchos would have been a better name for all and sundry :P